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[–] 5 points 2 days ago

Also pretty sure embrace extend extinguish doesn't apply to a straight up buyout, it's about taking a competing (often opensource) technology, embracing it and supporting it, then moving to take control over it by extending it (thus becoming the de facto main implementation, as others struggle to keep up with changes), waiting for competition to die out before finally dropping support, thus killing the technology

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